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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Uncompromising death metal from Birkirkara, active since 2017. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Boundaries are a metallic hardcore band from Hartford, Connecticut who formed in 2014 and specialize in a vicious blend of hardcore punk and death metal. Their album 'My Body in Bloom' earned acclaim for its relentless aggression and surprisingly melodic undercurrents beneath the chaos. The band channels visceral emotion through a wall of crushing riffs and desperate screams that place them among the most intense acts in modern hardcore.
Konya-based doom metal act active since 2018, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
Finnish progressive metal project formed in 2024. They explore complex progressive metal structures with intellectual rigor.
German heavy/power metal band from Frankfurt an der Oder, active since 2008. They deliver boundless power metal anthems from the eastern German border city.
German death/thrash metal band from Reichenbach im Vogtland, formed in 2020. They channel chaotic death-thrash from the Saxon-Thuringian borderlands.
French thrash/death metal and grindcore band from Lyon, formed in 2014. They deliver bounty-hunter death-grind from the Rhône Valley capital.
German melodic power metal band from Oldenburg, formed in 2025. They bring fresh melodic power metal energy to the Lower Saxon scene.
Devastating Blackened Death Metal from Houston.
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